| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.06.2024 | UK startups trailing on net zero and responsible AI | The percentage of start-ups measuring their carbon footprint has increased from 16 to 28 according to new data from ESG_VC. Data was collected from 587 start-ups backed by leading venture capital firms including Atomico, Molten, Beringea, O... |
| 09.04.2024 | Reshape wants to help ‘decode nature’ by automating the ‘visual’ part of lab experiments | A Danish startup wants to help R&D teams automate lab experiments that require visual inspections, raising $20 million in a Series A round of funding to scale its technology in the U.S.
Reshape, which was founded out of Copenhagen in 20... |
| 09.11.2023 | 🎙️’We could use $100bn per year.’ Astanor’s Eric Archambeau on how agrifoodtech will mature after its dot com-style crash | Afer kicking off his career during the heady days of the dot com boom — and subsequent bust — Eric Archambeau cofounded Astanor Ventures with George Coelho in 2017 as an impact venture capital fund for food and agriculture.
“We founded it w... |
| 22.09.2023 | Astanor Ventures Closes Second Venture Fund, at €360M | Astanor Ventures, a Brussels, Belgium-based agrifood tech impact investment firm, closed its second venture fund, at €360m.
Building upon the first venture fund, Astanor remains committed to its core investment strategy of supporting early-... |
| 19.09.2023 | Impact investor Astanor Ventures closes second agrifoodtech fund on €360m | Impact investor Astanor Ventures has closed its second agrifood fund on €360 million ($384 million).
The Belgium-based firm says “most of” the investors from its first fund returned to participate in this latest one.
Astanor will continue t... |
| 19.09.2023 | Early Spotify backers ready to invest €360m Astanor fund in ‘ripe for innovation’ agrifood tech sector | |
| 19.09.2023 | Astanor Ventures Secures €360 Million for Second Fund, Fueling Sustainable Bioeconomy | Belgium-based Astanor Ventures has achieved a significant milestone today by successfully closing its second venture fund, amassing a substantial €360 million in commitments.
Astanor Ventures is on a mission to drive transformative change ... |
| 18.09.2023 | Astanor Ventures closes a second fund of €360M for a sustainable bioeconomy | Today, Belgium-based Astanor Ventures, successfully closed its second venture fund at €360 million.
The investment firm is focused on fostering transformative change in agrifood tech through impact investing and contributes to creating a su... |
| 06.07.2023 | Leading European Insect Company Appoints New CEO To Drive Strategic Expansion | Shankar Krishnamoorthy is the new CEO of ŸnsectŸnsect |
| 14.04.2023 | Over £80 billion went to Agritech in Europe in the last 20 years – will there be enough high-quality food for all? | The United Nations predicts that by 2050 the world population will rise to almost 10 billion. With such a large number of inhabitants, in addition to issues related to education, living space, availability of basic services, etc., the quest... |
| 23.02.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Pure Salmon nabs $507m, FreshToHome bags $104m, more layoffs for agrifood | This week, Amazon backs India’s FreshToHome and Pure Salmon inked a whopping $507 million deal with Saudi Arabia’s government. Layoffs continue, while regulators in Finland approve the use of “burger patty” in marketing plant-based meat pro... |
| 22.02.2023 | ‘Massive impact on how we grow fresh produce.’ Why Astanor Ventures led $23m Source.ag Series A | Netherlands-based Source.ag has closed a $23 million Series A to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) system for greenhouse growers. Agrifoodtech VC Astanor Ventures led the round with participation from Acre Venture Partners and several... |
| 22.02.2023 | Source.ag ploughs $23 million following launch of its first greenhouse farming AI last year | Amsterdam-based Source.ag said it has received $23 million in series A funding, closing out the round to bring its lifetime total to $35 million.
Source.ag develops AI to assist greenhouse farm owners. The AI is able to simulate cultivation... |
| 01.02.2023 | Who were the most active food and agriculture technology venture capital firms in 2022? | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder, a food and agriculture technology venture capital firm.
Click here for more research from AgFunder and ... |
| 10.01.2023 | “Climate change reporting will reshuffle competitive advantage conditions for companies” – former Danone CEO | New accounting standards that take sustainability and climate impacts into account as well as financial metrics will create a new playing field for companies, according to Emmanuel Faber, former CEO of Danone and partner at Astanor Ventures... |
| 22.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Swiftly bags $100m for grocery tech, Pano’s $20m to fight wildfires with AI | This week, retail and grocery tech startup Swiftly bagged a mega-round while front-of-house restaurant software startup Zenchef cooked up new financing to expand its presence. In agtech, Pano raised funds to fight wildfires with AI and Land... |
| 20.09.2022 | Hamburg’s MicroHarvest reaps in €8.5 million to build protein production system | Addressing the pressing need for sustainable alternatives to meet the growing global protein, demand Hamburg-based biotech startup MicroHarvest has raised €8.5 million in funding. The new capital will allow the startup to bring their single... |
| 30.06.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Eclipse scoops $40m for animal-free ice cream, Current Foods nets $18m | This week, Eclipse — best known for its animal-free ice creams — closed its Series B round, while another plant-based protein startup, Current Foods, raised capital for its vegan salmon analog.
Elsewhere, e-grocer Ocado scored big from a pu... |
| 02.06.2022 | Astanor Ventures Partners With StartLife To Help Scale Up Disruptive Agrifoodtech |
Astanor Ventures, a venture capital fund uniquely focused on supporting and scaling disruptive solutions to some of the most urgent global needs in food and agriculture, has joined the StartLife partner community. Together we will maximiz... |
| 26.05.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Stable raises $60m, Galley gets $14m, World Bank’s $30bn food crisis response | Multiple restaurant tech companies made headlines this week, from Galley Solutions’ sizeable Series A fundraise to TRAY’s multi-year deal with IHOP. Meanwhile, a carbon initiative in Africa nabbed its first tranche of funding to restore lan... |
| 26.04.2022 | The first Swiss-based protein fermentation plant to launch in 2024 | |
| 21.04.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Israel & Netherlands beef up cell ag funding, Microsoft joins $225m Udaan round | Two countries this week announced government grants for cell ag to foster more development of cultivated meat and dairy analogs – and in doing so, build up food security and sovereignty. Elsewhere, Microsoft joined a major debt financing ro... |
| 07.04.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Umiami grabs $30m for alt-chicken, funding for forest tech grows | France’s Umiami took a step closer to commercializing its whole-cut vegan chicken breast this week with the close of an Astanor Ventures-led Series A round.
Elsewhere, two startups raised funds for their reforestation-focused tech, while th... |
| 24.03.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: African startups Apollo, Wasoko & ThriveAgric close big-ticket rounds | This has been a watershed week for African agrifoodtech, with a string of startups from the continent closing eight and nine-figure US dollar rounds over the past few days. Kenya’s Wasoko and Apollo Agriculture raised $125 million and $40 m... |
| 16.03.2022 | IUNU raises $24m Series B funding to bring ‘true autonomy’ to CEA | US-based IUNU (pronounced “you knew”), which makes computer vision and AI solutions for controlled environment agriculture (CEA), has raised $24 million in a Series B round led by Lewis & Clark AgriFood.
Existing investors S2G Ventures,... |
| 16.03.2022 | IUNU Raises $24 Million Series B to Accelerate Market Position and Product Offerings | IUNU Company Logo “This round of investment reflects the confidence institutional investors have in us. The conversation around autonomous growing has accelerated in the past year, and we’re proud to be leading the way on this front,” said ... |
| 02.03.2022 | Dutch startup, bringing healthy food to more people, reaps in $10 million to drive AI powered indoor farms | Climate change is driving substantial scarcity and strains in global food supply. As this accelerates in the coming years, we need to find ways to scale efficient growing solutions that lighten the footprint of agriculture. Towards safer, m... |
| 01.03.2022 | Source makes greenhouses smarter to secure the future of food supply | Agtech startup Source.ag today announced it harvested a $10 million investment to make greenhouses smarter. The founders have set their eyes on a horizon where, driven by climate change and a rapid increase in global food demand as populati... |
| 26.10.2021 | World Fund is a new €350M climate VC fund incubated by green search engine Ecosia | You might have previously thought that Ecosia was a nice-to-have search engine that planted trees when you punched-in a search term. Lovely. How nice. But no. Ecosia’s founders and the network around it are far more serious about climate ch... |
| 02.09.2021 | Stockeld Dreamery raises $20m Series A funding to expand plant-based cheese lineup | Swedish startup Stockeld Dreamery has raised €16.5 million ($19.5 million) in Series A funding to advance its alternative cheese business.
Food- and ag-focused VC Astanor Ventures and early-stage investor Northzone led the round, which also... |
| 02.09.2021 | San Diego’s Plantible Secures $21.5M For Alt Meat & Dairy Created From One of World’s Most Sustainable Plant Proteins | Plantible Foods announces it has closed a $21.5 million Series A funding round led by Astanor Ventures, making a total raise of $27 million to date. The startup’s proprietary plant protein Rubi Protein™ harnesses lemna, an aquatic plant com... |
| 06.08.2021 | Belgium’s Astanor Ventures drops €45 million into plant-based protein company v2food | Hailing from Sydney, Australia, v2food has received a €45 million investment from Brussels-based Astanor Ventures. This raise brings v2food’s Series-B round to a healthy €92 million, and with it, the company plans an aggressive expansion in... |
| 05.08.2021 | BREAKING: Impact investors, Chinese tech giant join V2food’s $53m Series B extension | Alt-protein startup V2food has secured €45 million ($53.3 million) funding in a “Series B-plus” round led by Belgian impact investor Astanor Ventures.
V2food, which claims to be the Asia-Pacific region’s “most funded alternative protein com... |
| 05.08.2021 | Impact investors, Chinese tech giant join V2food’s $53m Series B extension | Alt-protein startup V2food has secured €45 million ($53.3 million) funding in a “Series B-plus” round led by Belgian impact investor Astanor Ventures.
V2food, which claims to be the Asia-Pacific region’s “most funded alternative protein com... |
| 21.05.2021 | UPDATED: ProducePay scores $43m Series C funding from VCs, development banks | Editor’s note: This article was updated on May 21, 2021, to provide comment from ProducePay founder Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck.
Online ag marketplace ProducePay has raised $43 million in a Series C round co-led by Silicon Valley-based firm G... |
| 20.05.2021 | Cervest secures $30 million in Series A funding to launch world's first AI-powered Climate Intelligence platform and lead new $40 billion market | |
| 20.05.2021 | Cervest : secures $30 million in Series A funding to launch world's first AI-powered Climate Intelligence platform and lead new $40 billion market | LONDON, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Cervest, creator of the world's first AI-powered Climate Intelligence (CI) platform, today announced it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Draper Esprit. Cervest seeks to help enterprises, financ... |
| 20.05.2021 | BREAKING: ProducePay scores $43m Series C funding from VCs, development banks | Online ag marketplace ProducePay has raised $43 million in a Series C round co-led by Silicon Valley-based firm G2VP, the World Bank‘s International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the Inter-American Development Bank‘s IDB Invest.
Existing i... |
| 20.05.2021 | London-based climate intelligence platform Cervest secures $30 million in Series A round | London’s AI-powered climate intelligence platform Cervest has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Draper Esprit. Existing investors Astanor Ventures, Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon Capital, and Future Positive Capital followed on, and ... |
| 12.05.2021 | Apeel Sciences acquires ImpactVision to look inside fruit & veg for freshness | Disclosure: AgFunder (AFN’s parent company) is an investor in ImpactVision. Learn more here.
Apeel Sciences, the food waste technology company, has acquired hyperspectral imaging startup ImpactVision. This is Apeel’s first acquisition, and ... |
| 12.05.2021 | Apeel Sciences acquires ImpactVision to look inside fruit & veg for freshness | Disclosure: ImpactVision has received investment from AgFunder, which is the parent company of AFN. Learn more here.
Apeel Sciences, the food waste technology company, has acquired hyperspectral imaging startup ImpactVision. This is Apeel’s... |
| 26.02.2021 | 6 Copenhagen investors share their outlook on investing in 2021 | While Denmark and Copenhagen don’t often come up as a destination for European startups, it has a thriving local tech scene that’s home to some of the better startup conferences. After all, who doesn’t want to visit Copenhagen?
A highly edu... |
| 24.12.2020 | 5 trends that shaped agrifoodtech in 2020 | 2020 has been a year like no other in living memory for the vast majority of us. The Covid-19 pandemic, which began in China at the tail end of last year and gradually engulfed to entire world by the second quarter of this one, has brought ... |
| 24.11.2020 | Astanor Ventures Launches $325M Food Tech and Agtech Fund | Astanor Ventures, a Luxembourg-based venture capital firm focused on food tech and agtech, is launching a $325m fund.
The fund will invest in food and agriculture technology companies across Europe and North America.
Astanor’s founding thes... |
| 24.11.2020 | With companies like Aphea Bio & Biotalys, Ghent is Europe’s hidden gem for ag biotech | The Belgian city of Ghent owes its medieval splendor to being in the middle of the sheep-filled pastureland of Flanders. In centuries past, this provided plentiful supplies of wool – just as breakthrough textiles technologies took off acros... |
| 23.11.2020 | Astanor Ventures launches $325M agriculture fund | Belgium's Astanor Ventures has reached a $325 million close on its maiden vehicle targeting agri-food tech startups across Europe and North America. The firm was set up in 2017 by former Benchmark Capital execs Eric Archambeau and George Co... |
| 20.11.2020 | Astanor raises $325 million fund to invest in agri-food tech startups | By Reuters Staff
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Astanor Ventures, a backer of German vertical farmer InFarm and French insect breeder Ynsect, said on Friday it had raised a $325 million fund to invest in sustainable food, agriculture and oce... |
| 20.11.2020 | Astanor Ventures launches Europe’s largest impact fund at €274.6 million to back agri-food and ocean tech startups | Astanor Ventures has closed an approx €274.5 million global fund to help revolutionise the food and agriculture sector – putting the health of people and ecosystems back at the heart of the food system, just as the coronavirus crisis has hi... |
| 20.11.2020 | Belgian VC Astanor Ventures raises Europe’s largest impact fund; €273M for agri-food & ocean tech startups | Over the past few years, the agriculture sector has been attracting huge investments, as VCs are investing in solutions that seek to solve the food security problem amid the rapid population growth. According to Deloitte, the agriculture in... |
| 20.11.2020 | Belgian firm Astanor Ventures raises $325 million impact fund to back agri-food tech startups | With its new $325 million impact fund, Brussels-based Astanor Ventures is seeking European and North American startups — across food, agriculture and ocean tech — who want to solve systemic challenges across the food system and build busine... |
| 20.11.2020 | Spotify’s early investors have just raised Europe’s largest agritech fund | Belgium-based venture capital firm Astanor Ventures today announced the launch of its $325m fund dedicated to agriculture and food, Europe’s largest fund of its kind to date.
The fund is the VC’s first and will focus on startups in Europe a... |
| 20.11.2020 | Astanor raises $325 million fund to invest in agri-food tech startups | BERLIN (Reuters) - Astanor Ventures, a backer of German vertical farmer InFarm and French insect breeder Ynsect, said on Friday it had raised a $325 million fund to invest in sustainable food, agriculture and ocean technology startups.
The ... |
| 19.11.2020 | Astanor Ventures launches $325M Impact Fund aimed at food tech and ag tech startups | We can all, by now, ascribe to the idea that something has changed in the last few months. Like it or not, business is not as it was. If we were true to ourselves, we would admit that our lives will never be the same again. But parallel to ... |
| 06.10.2020 | Multi-million funding for crop diagnostics pioneer Vivent | All plants use internal electrical, mechanical and chemical signalling networks to coordinate growth, reproduction and defence – and Vivent is the first company in the world to launch a commercial crop health diagnostic system based on plan... |
| 06.10.2020 | Ÿnsect extends Series C to $372m, targets pet food & aims for carbon-negative status | French insect farming startup Ÿnsect has raised an additional $224 million in Series C funding, bringing the round to $372 million in total. It had announced a first Series C close of $148 million in February last year.
According to Ÿnsect,... |
| 06.10.2020 | Multi-million funding for crop diagnostics pioneer Vivent | |
| 02.10.2020 | Vivent is helping plants ‘speak’ to humans by tapping into their electrophysiology | What if crops could actually tell farmers when they are stressed – and why?
This sounds like the stuff of fairy tales. But theoretically it can happen with the right sensors tapping into a plant’s biosignals, along with sophisticated data a... |
| 17.09.2020 | Infarm raises $170m in first close of Series C | Infarm, a Berlin-based startup putting micro-vertical farms in urban locations like supermarkets, hospitals, and restaurants, has raised $170 million in the first close of its Series C round. The company expects the round to surpass $200 mi... |
| 11.08.2020 | MagGrow’s magnetic spray tech attracts $7.1m for Series A round | MagGrow, an Irish agtech startup harnessing magnetism to make crop spraying more accurate and less chemically intensive, has closed its Series A round at €6 million ($7.1 million).
Impact investor Astanor Ventures led the round, joined by s... |
| 09.07.2020 | Cheap food fuelled the Covid death toll. Now it’s time to tackle the obesity epidemic | Editor’s Note: Eric Archambeau is co-founder and managing partner of Astanor Ventures, an impact investing venture capital firm investing in purpose-driven companies in the sustainable agri-food sector. Previously he was chairman of the Jam... |
| 11.06.2020 | Seeking to save olive oil’s virginity or sleuth for horse meat, Europe’s Hyris and SwissDeCode gain funding | Anyone out there planning a gripping documentary on food fraud would do well to shadow the detective work of Interpol and Europol’s “Operation Opson,” a series of European supply chain investigations first prompted by the notorious Horsemea... |
| 06.11.2019 | Is climate modeling-as-a-service the next frontier of risk management? UK startup Cervest says yes. | Businesses know they need risk management departments but the existing methodologies of identifying potential problems down the road have a massive blind spot, according to Cervest founder and CEO Iggy Bassi. Climate change could cost the U... |
| 12.06.2019 | Is UK eGrocer Ocado’s $22m Vertical Farming Investment a Bargain? – updated | Updated Jun 12 4:32pm ET, to add details of first farm in China.
Readers of the Grimsby Telegraph, a niche northern English newspaper, may have spotted a striking headline in print last November: “Inside the world’s most advanced vertical f... |
| 11.06.2019 | InFarm Joins Vertical Farming Pantheon With Titanic $100m Series B | Berlin-based portable vertical farm startup InFarm on Tuesday disclosed a vast Series B raise of $100 million, bringing its total funding to over $134 million. The raise dramatically eclipsed the big vertical farming news from Britain’s Oca... |
| 22.05.2019 | Agrilyst Raises $8M Series A Co-Led by Astanor Ventures and Talis Capital | Artemis (formerly Agrilyst), the leading enterprise Cultivation Management Platform (CMP), today announced it has closed a $8 million Series A funding round co-led by Astanor Ventures and Talis Capital with participation from existing inves... |
| - | Nou fond european de 325 milioane dolari pentru startup-uri tech de agricultură | Startup-urile europene din domeniul tehnologiilor pentru agricultură vor putea obține noi finanțări de capital de risc dintr-un fond de investiții, în valoare totală de 325 de milioane de dolari, lansat vineri de o firmă de venture capital ... |
| - | Orrick Advises Astanor Ventures in Ÿnsect’s $125 Million Series C | Orrick has advised Brussels-based VC firm Astanor Ventures, as lead investor, in France-based ag-tech startup Ÿnsect’s $125 million Series C financing round. This investment is the largest ag-tech funding deal outside of the United States.
... |
| - | Dutch startup, bringing healthy food to more people, reaps in $10 million to drive AI powered indoor farms | Climate change is driving substantial scarcity and strains in global food supply. As this accelerates in the coming years, we need to find ways to scale efficient growing solutions that lighten the footprint of agriculture. Towards safer, m... |
| - | Belgium’s Astanor Ventures drops €45 million into plant-based protein company v2food | Hailing from Sydney, Australia, v2food has received a €45 million investment from Brussels-based Astanor Ventures. This raise brings v2food’s Series-B round to a healthy €92 million, and with it, the company plans an aggressive expansion in... |
| - | Game changing microcapsule maker Calyxia raises €15 million | France’s maker of biodegradable microcapsule Calyxia has raised €15 million. The startup is fundamentally changing the way industries utilise microplastics, or, as the case may be, not. The new funding is meant to be used to roll out commer... |
| - | Dairy-free cheese maker Stockeld Dreamery scores €16.5 million in fresh cheddar | Stockeld Dreamery, home of the world’s most ambitious cheese, has raised €16.5 million in a Series A round. The fresh cheddar is expected to expand the startups’ product portfolio, increase the team size, and press into new markets. To date... |
| - | Astanor Ventures Launches $325M Impact Fund Aimed at Foodtech and Agtech Startups | - |
| - | London-based climate intelligence platform Cervest secures $30 million in Series A round | London’s AI-powered climate intelligence platform Cervest has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Draper Esprit. Existing investors Astanor Ventures, Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon Capital, and Future Positive Capital followed on, and ... |
